So the past few days there has been a burst of carb questions.. This encouraged me to write a carb faq which I have been meaning to do for months now. So, the past three calculus classes at college were spent writing this:

www.bluebassdesign.com/boonin/carb_faq/

Its not 100% done, but just about. When I go home for thanksgiving I'm gonna get a ton of pictures for the topics. For now, its pretty much all the text though.

So ya, thats just about all you need to know bout how the thing works.. I'll probably add some more stuff as I think of it. Definently let me know if you think I should change anything or if I left something out.

I'd like to thank my piece of crap 1st carb for teaching me most of this when I was trying to get it to work while being late for school/work on numerous occasions <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/shiner.gif" alt="" /> And of course Josh, ArbitraryNotion, gets a thank you as well as he tought me all the basics a couple of years ago over AIM.

Enjoy, hope it helps a bunch of you out <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/kewl.gif" alt="" />

-Scerb

This should help a lot of people out, i just got done rebuilding my carburetor and this would have been a big help. anyone thinking of rebuilding there carb should give it a try, its not as hard as it looks once you get into it.

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haha you wern't kidding were you jared.

Awesome, I'm sure there are a lot of people that will get a lot of use out of this.

After giving it a quick scan, it may have helped me already (I think my choke coil needs to be rotated a bit... my engine never quite has full power when it's really cold out).

Thanks!

Thank you much for this. It will help my sister understand the carb functions and relieve me of some of the maintenance procedures <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />
Danny

Great <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/kewl.gif" alt="" />

I vote for sticky

I' one of them struglin wit my carb....thought I'd go to EFI but aftr readin this gonn try rebuildin the carb
(usually I'm all thumbs with carbs)

thanks for the post

one note I could make....It would be easier for people if ya included a "printer friendly button"

Just a thot.....

Thanks guys. I'm glad its helping a few of you out already.

I just re-read it all for the first time... fixed a couple of typos and clarified some stuff. I think its pretty good now. I'll probably think of more stuff to add tomorrow of course. It won't be completely done until all the pictures are up at thanksgiving anyway.



Do you mean like black and white with no pics? It should be mostly printer friendly right now.. but it won't be hard to do if you clarify what you were thinking. Keep the suggestions coming please - especially if you read something that didn't make sense and needs to be reworded. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/kewl.gif" alt="" />




Probably choke, but also take a look at the AAP section. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />



And those of you thinking about trying the rebuild... as long as you know how to use a screwdriver and are somewhat mechanically inclined.. go for it! Post up if you have any questions during the process of course.


Thanks!

Scerb

well if I had a carb i'm sure this would be very useful to me <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/pfft.gif" alt="" />


nice scerb <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/cheers.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/cheers.gif" alt="" /> well done
looks good too

Thanks Scerb!!

Wish I'd had this a few months ago <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/shiner.gif" alt="" />

Now I'll go dig that old carb out of the shed and start in on it <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />